Question

Why is the conjugate of a strong oxidizing agent a weak reducing agent?

Answer 1

HEY MATE ^_^

So far as I know, chromium(III) - what remains when you oxidize something with chromium(VI) - is not any sort of reducing agent; and aluminum oxides (what's left when you reduce something with lithium aluminum hydride) are not any sort of oxidizing agent.

It just doesn't seem to work that way in practice, because redox reactions are not always simple, reversible reactions. A few of them are; those are the reactions we use for rechargeable batteries.

The reason it works for acid-base reactions is because they are simple, reversible reactions.

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Answer 2

Hello mate here is your answer.

In the first reaction, the copper ion is able to oxidize the zinc metal.Zn2+ is a weak conjugate oxidizing agent compared to Cu2+. Conversely,strong oxidizing agents haveweak conjugate reducing agents. The second reaction did not occur because the reactants were the weaker reducing andoxidizing agents.

Hope it helps you.